St Saviours Winter Show – A Year in Lockdown

This weekend our first curated exhibition opened at the Florence Trust. Admittedly it is currently only available to view online but we are hoping that we can open the show to the public when lockdown ends on the 2nd of December. Every afternoon (excluding Monday and Tuesday) we are posting online content at 3pm. This…

St Saviour’s Winter Show: Ross Belton

The idea of ‘place’ as a concept is key to the work of Ross Belton and his practice. His work responds directly to the environment he finds himself in, whether urban or rural. Natural dyes, homegrown plants, found objects and recycled materials form the building blocks of his work. The direction is dictated by the…

St Saviour’s Winter Show: Jonathan Dredge

The act of looking and experiencing is key for an artist, and it is something that has preoccupied Jonathan since drawing flora as a child. This continues to be a key strand of his work as he attempts to capture the essence and atmosphere of what he sees before him, whether it is the beauty…

St Saviour’s Winter Show: Erna Janine

Inspired by extended stays and textile residencies in India and Japan, Erna Janine is a Stroud based weaver. She uses her Japanese looms to create experimental structures often in natural fibres. Inspired by her surroundings of living within in a heritage wool mill and former dye-house complex, she finds it difficult not to contemplate the…

St Saviour’s Winter Show: Wolfgang ‘wolf & wilding’

Wolfgang is a mixed-media artist with a background in architecture.  The intellectual and cultural background of architecture inspires ideas and points of departure. Urban life perpetually offers up the extraordinary in the everyday, and is the prompt for private reflections and personal experiences … me, myself and I Wolfgang’s work embodies aspects of self-identity … exaggeration and…

St Saviour’s Winter Show: Zuzana Krskova

Textile artist and maker, Zuzana Krskova explores the slow processes of natural dyeing and stitching in her creative practice. She grows, forages and sources dye plants and finds magic in hand dyeing fabric using colour extracted from their flowers, leaves, roots or bark. Her homewares, accessories and art pieces are created from these botanically dyed…

St Saviour’s Winter Show: Moira Searle

Moira makes unique handcrafted clothing for women.  Her inspiration comes from a love of sea and shoreline where she gathers a wealth of visual information that gives endless possibilities in developing her work.  Moira also has a passion for fashion and especially enjoys clothing from past eras which influence her designs.   Moira uses the…

St Saviour’s Winter Show: Lottie Whyman

Lottie is a woven textile designer who focuses on using natural fibres and natural dyes. Lottie is consciously driven to minimise the amount of waste produced within her textiles practice due to how polluting the fashion industry is already. Lottie is also passionate about photography and would say this is a hobby of hers; interested…

St Saviour’s Winter Show: Liz Elton

Liz Elton employs time related narratives, vegetable dyes and compostable materials to consider our relationship with landscape, and waste.  Paintings such as ‘100 Harvests’, referencing research discussing compromised soil fertility, have been made on compostable food recycling bag material, which is made from crops such as corn or potatoes and produced in order to facilitate…

St Saviour’s Winter Show: Lily Grant

Lily Rose Grant (b. 1993) is an artist and art teacher based in North London. She studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins and History of Art at the University of York. Grant works from her studio (a converted garage in her garden) to produce paintings, drawings and screen prints which are drenched in bright…

St Saviour’s Winter Show: Karen Byrne

Karen Byrne’s current work explores the use of language to constrain human behaviour and shape societal responses.  Her interests lie in the policing of behaviour through language and stereotypic media portrayals in particular as it relates to sexuality and body image.  Sometimes humorous in expression, she has given form to words making real what is…

St Saviour’s Winter Show: Clara Jedrecy

Clara Jedrecy is a London based textile and fashion designer, who’s approach is slow and circular.  Her aim is to bring back locality in the supply chain process from raw material to finished garment in order to help generate and be part of a “new” local economy. She is widely inspired by the natural cycles…